Railway-tie and fastener.



SHEET 2.

.l OLSON RAILWAY TIE AND FASTENER.

v APPLICATION FILED MAY IZ, |915- 1152206, Patented Aug. 31, 1915.

` 2 SHEETS JOHN OLSON, 0F CLEARFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAILWAY-TIE AND FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application ied May 12, 1915. Serial No. 27,570.

To all whom t may concern.'

' Be it known thatJ I, JoiiN OLSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Clearfield, in the county of Clearfield and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Ties and Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains'to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in railway ties andfasteners and the principal object of the invention is to provide a tie which may be made of metaland to which railroad rails may be easily and quickly secured to prevent the same from spreading or sinking.

Another object of the'invention is to provide a tie which may be made of' metal and which is so constructed as to render the removal of the railroad rails comparatively Yeasy and which will also prevent the rails from becoming accidentally detached.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device which if so desired may be so constructed as to be used as a cap for the ordinary wooden tie to which the rails may be rigidly secured. e v

Still another object of the invention is to provide a railway tie provided near Veach end with recesses having overhanging rail flange engaging portions for the reception of the rails and to provide fasteners larranged to be connected to the tie bodies and cooperate with the-overhanging portions in holding the rails against displacement.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a tie of the abo-ve character whichv is so constructed as to enable the rail fasteners to be removed without necessitating Y the removal of the rails from the tie, thereby enabling the user to easily and quickly substitute a new fastener for one which may be broken or worn.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts which will be fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a railroad tie constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a side view in elevation of the tie showing the rails in place, the said rails being in section. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary perspective view of the tie. Fig. 4; is

a fragmentary perspective view of the fastener, and Fig. 5 is a sectional view on line 5-5 of Fig. 2. i

Referring now to the drawings by characters of reference, the numeral 1 designates as an entirety a tie constructed in accordance with this invention comprising the body 2 having formed in its upper face' near each end suitable recesses 3. A longitudinally extending groove Il connects the recesses and forms the upstanding longitudinal flanges 5 which project upwardly oneeach side of the tie. The outer faces of these flanges 5 are coincident with the side faces of the body 2 and these iianges are each provided with Patented Aug. 31, 1915.

the transverse horizontally extending open-` i i ings 6, the use of which will appear as the description proceeds. rlhe recesses 3 extend entirely across the tie as shown and form the end wall or shoulder 7, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 8. Formed at the upper edge of the shoulder and extending therefrom in a direction opposite to the recess 3 is the rail seat 8, which is formed by notching out the body of the tie as clearly shown. VCooperating withthe rail seat 8 is the rail flange engaging portion 9 whichl partially overhangs said railseat and is arranged to.v

engage the upper side of the outer flange of the rail when the same is in place. The

outer faces of each of the flanges 5'are pro-` vided with the counter-sunk recesses 10 in which the bolt heads and nuts rest as shown in Fig; 5. i A

Cooperating with the tie previously described are the rail-fasteners best illustrated in Fig. 4l, each yof which comprises the bodyV or head 11 having formed thereon the stem o r shank 12. Thisshank or stemisprovided with a pair of transversely extending apertures 13 which aline with the apertures 6 to' form bolt receiving passages through which the fastening bolts, which will be more-.fully hereinafter described, extend. The forward edge of the head 11 is notched out to form the rail seat 14 and is so constructed as to providethe rail flange engaging portion 15 which overhangs the inner flange of the rail when the same is in place. The rail seat 14 extends beyond the flange engaging portion 15 to provide the shoulder or abutment 16 which restsV against the shoulder 7 when the device is in its assembled position. It will be noted that the shank or stein 12 is offset with relation to the center of the head 11 so that the inner wall thereof lies in the same plane asthe longitudinal axis of the rail fastener. The

` said stem being square in cross Vsection so in the tie,` the fastening bolts 17 are provided and the heads 18 ofthe said bolts are seated in the counter-sinks on one side of the tie while the nuts 19 of said bolts seat in the counter-sink onthe'opposite side. It will thus be seen that the side faces of the ties: are

"l 'plane andthere are no'I projections.

alsoapparent thatv the ends of the bolts are protected vagainst 'breakage and also against the elements so thatthere is little' danger of the nuts'lbecoming rusted thereon to certain extent as to prevent the removal olf rthe bolts 20 and the fasteners. The railsrused in rconnectionrwith this tie are of the ordinary type comprising the heads 20, provided with the centrallydepending webs 21, which are provided at their lower edges with Vthe rail bases 22, `the outer and inner flanges Vof the -rail bases being designated respectively A AandB.

iI/Vhe'n' assembling the tie and laying out 5' d the road,ithe ties are placed in the usual way and the railsslipped in place so that the flanges A rest on the rail seat S of the tie and -arejengaged bythe flange engaging portions 9. Y rIhemfasteners are then slipped in placebyipassing the rail seat 14 beneath the kflanges B in suclr'a wayth'at the rail flange vengaging"portions, 15 Voverhang theV upper faces'of theflanges' Bj andf'the -stems or Y shank-12j of the fasteners lie in the'groove 4 f: w and/between the flanges 5 of the tie. In this l 40 positionit will be seenV that theopenings 6 afndfl will aline, thus Yallowing the passage of the bolts 17 therethrough,jso that the heads' 8 `may beplaced in the counter-sink 10for r-V one side vof the tie and the nut 19 g Copies of this patent may be obtanedifor placed in the counter-sink on the opposite sideof the tie. Upon' tightening the nuts itwill be apparent that" accidental move# nient of the fasteners and rails is prevented v y and it willbeapparent that the rails will be 50 y rigidly supported on the tie thereby avoiding 'any `possibility of the rails twisting,

It is spreading or sinking, as the use of spikes is eliminated. It is apparent that a rail fastener constructed in accordance .with this invention may be used in conjunction with a woodentie by reducing the thickness of the body 2 and securing the body to the upper surface of the wooden tie. In using this device it is apparent that the rails will be more securely held in place than is possible by the ordinary method of spiking and it is also evident that when soy used the combined advantage of the wooden and metallic ties is obtained.

While in the foregoing there has been shown and described the preferred embodiment of this invention, it is to be understood that such changes may be made in the combination and arrangement of parts as will fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

What is claimed iszvA railroad tie of the character described including a body having a recess near each end, rail seats formed adjacent the recesses,

said rail seats being on a plane slightly above the bottom wall of the recesses and forming shoulders, rail flange engaging portions partly o'verhanging the rail seats, flanges extending upwardly from the sides ofthe tie forming a longitudinal groove connecting the recesses, tie fasteners arranged to seat in the recesses, said fasteners comprising a head, thehead being notched tov provide a rail seat and rail [lange engaging portions, the edge of the bottom wall of the rail' seat abutting-its respective shoulder, a shank on the side of the head opposite the notched portion, the shanks of these fasteners lying adjacent each other, the

. flanges on the tie and the Shanks being provided with alining apertures and bolts extending through the apertures to hold the Shanks in place and thereby insure the rail fasteners against movement.

In testimony whereof I aflixA my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JCI-IN OLSON.

Witnesses.: Y .Gn S. STOVER, FRANK STONE.

Ave cents Yeach, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington,- D. C. 

